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I'm Not Harry Jenson is a micro-budget theatrical New Zealand film released in 2009. It is the first feature film written and directed by James Napier Robertson. It was produced by Tom Hern through the production company Six String Pictures.
Jan 29, 2010 · With James Napier Robertson, Gareth Reeves, Jinny Lee Story, Marshall Napier. A true crime novelist, obsessed with his latest book and convinced he is losing his mind, takes a trip to the forest to recover, but ends up with a fellow traveler dead and blood on his hands.
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- Mystery, Thriller
- James Napier Robertson
- 2010-01-29
I'm Not Harry Jenson - In this dark whodunit Gareth Reeves (The Cult, A Song of Good) stars as a crime writer who goes bush with strangers, while on a break from researching a story on a serial killer. Soon there’s death in the muddy Waitakere backblocks.
Stanley Merse has murder constantly on his mind. A grungy true crime novelist, he finds himself increasingly plagued with nightmares and violent fantasies about his work, in particular the subject of his latest novel, Harry Jenson.
Directed by James Napier. Trust No One…Not Even Yourself. Evoking the style and pace of the Noir genre, the film is essentially a murder mystery with Stanley (Gareth Reeves) the prime suspect.
- James Napier
- Six String Pictures, Four Knights Film
FLICKS: What was your inspiration behind I’m Not Harry Jenson? JAMES NAPIER-ROBERTSON: I had always wanted to make a noir, mystery type film, as they were a huge part of my film interest growing up.
The main character, Stanley, is a writer who pens novels based on murderers; such as Harry Jensen who killed 37 people prior to his execution. Finding this particular murderer hard to write down, Stanley's agent Tom sends him on a trek deep in the New Zealand scrub, reachable only by helicopter.
